Haha, I do save it for after…helps me forget how sore I am…until the next day. I haven’t hit the slopes in over two years though. It’s kinda hard in Eastern NC when you have to drive 4-7 hours to have a good time, plus my wife isn’t really a fan so I’ve lost some interest. Anytime we are up north we are too busy to do anything fun, it’s a shame sometimes.
I guess I am used to people skiing around here, which is usually a tiny resort with a hill that only takes 1 minutes to get down. Illinois isn’t exactly a mountainous region
Fair assessment in that case. You ever take a trip to a mountainous area?
Skiing gets a lot of people killed and seriously injured. Generally when you see a prom queen type girl in a walking cast, she blew her knee out skiing.
When you factor in momentum and speed and gravity and then mix in snow, ice and edges, lots can go wrong.
I once caught the front edge of a snowboard (downhill edge) while recovering from a wobble during a turn, and went straight down face first. My arm went into my liver and bruised it like a muay thai liver kick. That was fucking horrible.
After a week of codeine, I was still in lots of pain in the abdomen area so I went back to the doctor. He was concerned so sent me next door for an x-ray. When I came back he came right out to look at the film.
He called me out of the waiting room and showed me the x-ray on one of those viewers, in the hall around the corner from the waiting room. He was pointing at a wide section of dark in the x-ray.
“See that dark section?” (I did…and I immediately thought I was bleeding internally or something horrible).
then he continued, laughing…
“That’s shit! You’re all bunged up from the codeine!”
LOL! I used to have a dentist that had that kind of humor.
Lol, awesome. Yeah it can be dangerous if you push your limits or get out there when its crowded
I’ve eaten a few heaping piles of bark from tree skiing, handful of concussions, and a few good yard sales skiing spring moguls but nothing that put me out for more than 30 seconds or so
I skied in Montana a few years ago. Was having a great time until I accidentally started going down a double black diamond (or whatever the high level of difficulty was called).
Had to take off my skis and walk back to the top. Pretty frightening for a novice.
I had an iphone app that would track runs, speed, vertical feet logged etc. Pretty cool, seemed fairly accurate, I’m not sure. It was awesome at sucking the battery life in no time though.
But It showed that several times I hit speeds of 60-65mph on some of the big groomers last time we went skiing. I felt fine at those speeds, but you hit something, or don’t know about a drop off, and things go south quickly. It was kind of shocking to see, but explained why my face was often windburned haha.
And beem is right. Getting into the back bowls, chutes, or backcountry can get dangerous very quickly if you don’t know what your doing. Often lack of confidence is the downfall in most minor accidents though (guess the inverse can be said for major ones though lol). I see a lot of people freeze up on runs b/c the think they can’t handle it. When in truth they have the skill and ability, but revert back to old habit which quickly get them in trouble. That’s how my mom tore her ACL, on a blue run at Big Sky that she was quite capable of handling, but freaked out and got tripped up and tore her ACL.
Lessons go a long long way if you want to get better at skiing the more advanced stuff though. It’s all about having a bag of tricks which you can use to throw at each unique obstacle.